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New in Laravel Get periodic, easy to consume summaries of the most relevant changes in Laravel, directly to your inbox — as they're released.

It's that time of week again where I send out a newinlaravel.com update!

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17.12.2025 10:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Took some time off publishing, but newinlaravel.com is back this week (and from now on... promise).

08.10.2025 11:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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10.07.2025 10:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Calling the syncWithoutDetaching method on a Belongs To Many relationship now automatically handles empty values like an empty collection, empty array, or null.

10.07.2025 10:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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New string methods, doesntStartWith and doesntEndWith offer a more readable way to check if strings don’t start or end with a substring.

10.07.2025 10:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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It’s now much easier to fetch config as a Collection.

10.07.2025 10:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Fluent objects are now iterable.

10.07.2025 10:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Here are some of the updates included in this week's edition of the New in Laravel newsletter! ↓

A new context Blade directive has been added, allowing you to check and fetch context values easily.

10.07.2025 10:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I'm putting together a newinlaravel.com release to send out soon — it's a really good one!

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11.06.2025 08:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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04.06.2025 09:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Finally, listening for model notifications just got easier with the new useEchoNotification hook for React and Vue.

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You can now call static methods on Collection items using higher order syntax.

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Reordering queries in descending order is now simpler with the new reorderDesc method.

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In this week's edition of the newinlaravel.com newsletter! ↓

Cast database strings directly into URI objects with a brand new `AsUri` cast.

04.06.2025 09:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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03.06.2025 18:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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28.05.2025 05:48 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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21.05.2025 11:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Context Contextual Attribute Introduced Context sharing just got easier with a new Context contextual attribute for resolving context values.

Finally, context sharing just got easier with a new Context contextual attribute for resolving values.

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21.05.2025 09:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Another new test assertion. Test redirections to controller actions with the new assertRedirectToAction method.

21.05.2025 09:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Next, a new assertClientError method helps API response testing by checking if status codes fall in the 4xx range.

21.05.2025 09:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Here’s what’s new in Laravel 12.15.0!

First, you can now provide a default value when retrieving an enum from request data.

21.05.2025 09:24 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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20.05.2025 17:06 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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19.05.2025 12:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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10.05.2025 07:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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08.05.2025 13:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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In case you missed it, last week I launched newinlaravel.com — the easiest way to keep up-to-date with changes in the Laravel ecosystem!

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05.05.2025 16:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Added some stats to the newinlaravel.com homepage showing verified subscribers and updates sent out!

30.04.2025 14:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Today I'm launching newinlaravel.com — the easiest way to keep up-to-date with changes in the Laravel ecosystem!

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newinlaravel.com

28.04.2025 11:14 👍 21 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0

Glad to hear that — and yeah same, I've had this idea on the backburner for a while and figured it'd be a super simple way to keep up-to-date!

29.04.2025 08:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0